Welcome to the Cosmic Café resource guide. To the left are resources to help you run a Science Café focused on cosmic themes: how the universe works and on what physics, quantum mechanics, astronomy, and cosmology tell us about reality and…ourselves.

Cosmic Cafés are inspired by NOVA’s series The Fabric of the Cosmos. This four-part series uses space and time as windows on the epic quest to understand how nature really works. By demystifying important physical concepts, we learn how scientists have discovered a world more fantastic than our senses alone could perceive.

To watch the series online, play with time and space interactives, listen to podcasts, and more, visit theFabric of the Cosmos website. If you have watched the series, tell us what you think by completing this survey:

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Major funding for "The Fabric of the Cosmos" is provided by the National Science Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0714645. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

Additional funding for this program is provided by the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, and by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science.